Word: luck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unlike most of the artists whose works are in Faculty '76, Ben Lifson had the luck to assemble a cohesive and slightly more comprehensive collection photographs. (Significantly, he is one of the few faculty members who bother to comment on their work in the explanatory notes attached to each flat...
Students looking for employment in these areas will have little or no luck if they wait until spring, Ashford predicted...
Imagination, perseverance, connections, and luck are the main ingredients in getting the kind of job most Harvard students find desirable, according to Elizabeth L. Forsythe, also a counselor...
Jimmy Carter won with a combination of grit, driving ambition, daring if flawed political planning and a generous measure of good luck. As a campaigner, he struck many voters as more enigmatic than charismatic, as more of a trimmer than a visionary-and perhaps not really likable enough. In the end, he did not so much win the presidency as avoid losing...
...idle after all? William Gass is not only a philosopher in the business of posing paradoxes but a writer (Omensetter's Luck, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country) to whom words matter. Blue, for instance. Gass notes that "a random set of meanings has softly gathered around the word the way lint collects." Gass would like to know why, and he is writer enough to make his inquiry far more entertaining than just another academic trip through the wild blue yonder...